Automobile turn-table.



A. DELLAMORE. AUTOMOBILE TURN TABLE. AIPLICATION FILED APR. 1s, 1912.

1,038,309, Patented sept. 10,1912.

ALBERT DELLAMOBE, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

AUTOMOBILE TURN-'TABLE'.

Specification of Lettersl'atent.

Patented Sept. 10,1912'.

Application led April 16, 1912. Serial No. 691,246.

o el?) whom t may concern.' l it known that l, ALBERT DELLAMQRE, a?fitr/:en of the United States, residing at Losv igeles, in the county ofLos, Angeles and ate of California, have invented a n'eW and usefulAutomobile Turn-Table, o-f which the following is a specification. Thisinvention relates to automobile turntables and the main object of theinvention to provide a 'turntable which is operated oy the revolution ofthe driving Wheels of 'the automobile While the automobile is resti onthe turntable.

erring to the drawings: Figure 1 is ical diametric section through theturnshowing an automobile 1n position 'Eig 2 is a plan view of the turn-`ly in section. Fig. 3 is a section i m3 Fig. Fig. 4 is a section o n l?ig. 2. Fig. is a modified form nc traction Wheels. designates the tablewhich is partly suped at the center by a thrust bearing 2 on edestal 3.rlfhe pedestal 3 is located in center of a pit 4 and around the edge of1 pit is a raised track 5. Wheels 6 are .nted in suitable journals 7under the' 1 and support the table revolubly, en-V ng it to be easilyrevolved. Two driving rollers 8 also rest on the track 5, each roller 8being mounted on a shaft 9 journaled in bearings 10 and carrying abeveled gear 11L rv ch meshes Wit-h a beveled pinion 12 on a aft 13.Mounted on the shaft 13 is a fricon roll 14 and arranged next to theroll 14 s similar friction roll 15 which is mounted f i shaft 16, thelatter being idly journaled in bearings 17. The friction rolls 14 arerably formed of concrete to give a good on with the tires of theautomobile, nl permitting them to be easily Washed to *e ,mud which maycollect. The table 1 formed With tvvo Wheel depressions depression 18having an abrupt in 19 and a gradual incline Q0, and is loin line withthe space between the a`dt friction rollers 14 and 15, and so ced thatone wheel of the automobile y rest on the rollers 14 and 15 and theiosite Wheel rest in the depression 18. voted to the journal 17 is apaWl 21 which engages a ratchet 9.2 on the shaft 16 which its therollerto turn in one direconly.

'in operation, the automobile is run onto the. turntable and so placedthat one ofits 'of the automobile Wheel is stopped.

driving wheels rests on friction -`rollers 14 and L15, While the otherdriving wheel rests I in the adjacent Wheel depression 18. The frontWheels of the automobile may or may not rest on the opposite frictionrollers or Wheel depression, depending-0n the length of the automobileand this is, immaterial because the opposite set are provided as du-`plicates in orderthat there may be one set at the point of exit orentrance, andas the turntable will ordinarily only be turned onehalfaround, I locate them op oste each other. The automobile having geenplaced in position, the gears of the automobile are' shlfted so that theautomobile would travel' rearWardly, then by starting the driving Wheelsin motion, one of the Wheelsis retained in the Wheel depression 18 andprevented frorn ,rotating and rolling backward out of 'the depression bythe abrupt incline 19, and as they other driving Wheel is free to turn,it operates to rotate the rollers 14 and 15, and as .rollers 14operate,.the gears 11 and 12 transmit rotation to the Wheel 8 and the,latter rolling on the track 5, turns the turntable into the positiondesired, and when such position is reached, further revolutiln T e gearof the automobile is then shifted and the automobile is propelledforward and when thus ropelled, the Wheel which is in the depression 18,travels up the gradual inoline and the Wheel which rests on the frictionrollers travels over the roller 15 rotary table, a track, driving Wheelson the trackand journaled on the table, friction Wheels journaled on thetable for operating said driving Wheels, means for preventing one ofsaid friction Wheels from rot-ating Wheels journaled 1in the tableforoperating- 'v in one direction, and a Wheel depression in said drivingWheels, means for preventing In testimony whereof, I have hereunto .sot

one of' said friction wheels from rotating my hand at Angeles,California, this in one direction, a Wheel depression in the 29th day ofMa i, 1912"...

table for holding a driving Wheel of the au- ALBER'I DELLAMORE. 5tomobile, said Wheel depression having un In presence 0f abrupt inclineat one side and a gradu'al G. T. HACKLEY,

incline on the other side. MARTHA M. M. LANGE..

